New Machine Head...

[Dead Winter]

...is as good if not better than Burn My Eyes. Great, great, thrash. Reminds me of Vio-lence. This return to form was better than the last one.

I know it was posted in another post, but I just wanted to reiterate it.

 

[Brett]

It's good, but not as great as Burn My Eyes. Maybe it competes with More Things Change, but not BME.

 

[lad]

Given the amount of hyperbolic spasms Robb Flynn appears to have had over this album, it'd better be fucking good!

 

[Enemy242]

tracks 1 - 3 are just amazing. the rest is good, but not great. if he had made everything as good as those first 3 it could've been perfect.

 

[CF87]

Machine Head are terrible.

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

hmm i think the new album sux...

dont get me wrong i like machine head...live...they bring a good vibe just like chimaira...

but still their new album sux

 

[Corsnor]

No, it's quite good actually. Maybe in my top 10 of 2007.

 

[BlueSky]

Machine Head are terrible.

seconded

 

[Galiral]

I'm listening to it right now, and it's a really good album, great riffs and solos, and finally without a lot of emo shit like the last album :\

 

[derek]

It's not bad. The new Dew Scented is pretty good. Formulaic, but I like it.

 

[Dead Winter]

I need to check out the new Dew Scented...I heard there is a lot of hardcore breakdown-y shit in it, which I detest. I'll give it a fair try, however.

I still don't see why Burn My Eyes is Machine Head's greatest album...for me, The More Things Change was way better. BME had a couple of great songs like Davidian and Nation on Fire, but I'll take TMTC any day over BME. The new album is more like TMTC, rather than BME. I disagree that the first three songs are the best because I personally think that A Farewell to Arms is brilliant. Ok, there's a little filler, but it's ultra high grade filler.

 

[the phish]

great album despite the now-metal-cliche of

"play riff clean as the intro, then make it distorted when drums kick in"

 

[azal]

I took a listen last night, definately full of awesome riffs and a lot of traditional metal iron maiden type solos and stuff they never had before.

But as my friend said, with that awesome production, almost any riff you play will sound awesome.

If this was the new metallica album people would be hailing it as the greatest metal album of all time.